We guess 3 out of 5 isn't bad!We dug up this photo from our archives and ran it last week, hoping that maybe some of our readers would be able to help us identify some of the folks in the shot. The person on the far right is, o...

Ladies & gentlemen, we present Irving Newman!A long-standing mystery that has been plaguing Pol Position may have just been solved! We've been sitting on this picture from the archives for a long, long time, assuming that nobody would be able...

Push to draft Vallone for mayorIt looks like former Astoria councilman Peter Vallone, Jr. still has some fans out there who would like to see him back in city politics. On Sunday, a Facebook page suddenly appeared looking to rec...

Run, Bo, run!We sure hope Bo Dietl makes good on his promise to run against Mayor Bill de Blasio in 2017, not necessarily because he makes a solid candidate that can run this city, because he no doubt would be ...

Can we just get this started already!The already strange bribery case to get State Senator Malcolm Smith on the ballot in the Republican Primary for mayor that also snared former Queens GOP vice chairman Vince Tabone and former counci...

Working together, but on what?We here at Pol Position, perhaps feeling a little sluggish from all of that holiday cheer over the past few days, dug back into our archives to come up with this gem of a shot. There's quite a few ...

Dems battle it out on the court for charityTime to put some young whipper-snappers in their places! The Queens County Young Democrats challenged some borough elected officials to a charity basketball game at Resurrection-Ascension Church in...

A meeting of the minds at borough hallWe didn't receive nearly as many responses to this week's request to help us identify the people in the mystery photo from our archives, but we did get a few responses from people whose history in ...

A little too close for comfortWith several statewide races and all of the talk of the huge Republican gains across the state and country last Tuesday night, a race in south Queens that was closer than we could have predicted is...

Some things never changeWe guess this week's political throwback photo was a little tougher than usual, because we sure didn't get very many responses. But we have a confession to make goslings. Over 99 percent of the tim...

Mayor has got to show Noerdlinger the doorIt doesn’t look like this whole Rachel Noerdlinger affair is going to go away anytime soon for the mayor. We’re not really sure why the mayor’s wife needs a chief of staff – or a staff at all, for ...

Another throwback photoEveryone seems to be having so much fun with our own version of Throwback Thursday and these unidentified photos from deep in the paper’s archives, that we thought we would pull another one out for...

Wake up mayor! You need to sign some bills!Man oh man, former Mayor Ed Koch looks like us at our desk after a three-day holiday weekend spent kicking back with a case or two of Night-Train Express Wine Coolers, staying out a little too late...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Aiming to jolt the rest of the world to action, President Barack Obama moved ahead Sunday with even tougher greenhouse gas cuts on American power plants, setting up a certain confrontation in the courts with energy producers and Republican-led states.

LOWER LAKE, Calif. (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service says an autopsy to determine the cause of death of a firefighter found dead during the initial attack against a fire in the Modoc National Forest will be conducted this week.